Also, the show starts earlier than previously posted. The show runs from 6:30 - 10pm, donation accepted.

As a reminder, Thursday February 16 features a panel discussion led by noted Los Angeles composer and long time LAFMS associate Carl Stone, who will be speaking with LAFMS founders Ace Farren Ford, Fredrik Nilsen, Joe Potts, Rick Potts, Tom Recchion, and Vetza. That starts at 7:30pm.

Beneath the Valley of the Lowest Form of Music: The Los Angeles Free Music Society (1972-2012) is open now through Feb 25 at The Box LA, 805 Traction Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90013 (213-625-1747), Wednesday through Saturday 12-6pm, or by appointment. This show is not to be missed! It is full of kinetic motion activated homemade instruments, photographs, sculpture, installations, paintings, archival materials, films, flyers, a record store and more by members of the LAFMS. Artworks by Rick Potts, Joe Potts, Tom Recchion, Fredrik Nilsen, Joseph Hammer, Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy, Ace Farren Ford, Michael Intriere, Doug Henry, Chip Chapman, John Duncan, Kevin Laffey, Dennis Duck, Extended Organ and more are featured.

Also available at the store is an exclusive edition of the occasional LAFMS publication "Lightbulb". Containing photocopy-process works of art and other items from over 87 contributors all over the world, in addition to an exact replica of the 1981 double cassette compilation, "Lightbulb 4: Emergency Cassette". Limited to an edition of 200 boxed copies worldwide.

This Thursday evening (Feb. 16) at 7:30 p.m. please join moderator Carl Stone and various members of the LAFMS in an informative discussion about the origins and influences of the LAFMS. At The Box gallery, 805 Traction Avenue. For more info please visit The Box LA.

The Box, located at 805 Traction, LA 90013, is host yet again to another ful day of LAFMS and related musical performances in support of the exhibition "Beneath The Valley Of the Lowest Form Of Music: The Los Angeles Free Music Society (1972-2012)" running until February 25, 2012

The Tuesday, January 31 edition of the LA Times Calendar section featured a photo of the Pyramid Headphones installation at the Welcome Inn Time Machine produced by SASSAS for the closing of the Performance and Public Art Festival of Pacific Standard Time.

Here is a scan of the newspaper (provided by Dennis Duck). You can see Joe Potts on the right speaking with a visitor.

According to Potts, the twelve extant headphones have not been used in the public since their original use in 1976 as part of the Brand Library performance. Prerecorded sounds supplied by Le Forte Four were piped into the homemade cardboard headphones.

On Saturday, Jan. 28, from 12pm-7pm at The Box in the arts district of downtown LA, a day of performances will take place in support of "Beneath The Valley of The Lowest Form of Music: The Los Angeles Free Music Society '1972-2012'". Scheduled to perform: Airway, Artificial Art Ensemble, Doo-Dooettes, Le Forte Four, The Tenses (actual order not yet determined).

Then on Sunday, Jan. 29, from 4pm-10pm there will be a recreation of the infamous Pyramid Headphone concert of 1976 as part of Welcome Inn Time Machine:

"The Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS), the banner heading of a loose collective of experimental musicians founded in the early 1970s, have had immeasurable influence on the spread and evolution of noise and avant-garde music and DIY culture over the past almost 40 years. In July of 1976, Le Forte Four, one of the earliest groups in the collective, created an installation at the Brand Library Art Center in Glendale, California, which consisted of forty-four black, pyramid-shaped, stereo headphones, with lights on the top, through which were played an audio collage entitled Box Your Ears (which was released in 1976 as part of the double LP LAFMS: Live at the Brand). This installation recreates the original utilizing the twelve extant original pyramid headphones.

Though the event is official "sold out", a limited amount of free tickets may again be reserved beginning Tuesday, January 17 to see The LAFMS Shoe perform at the Getty Center as part of the kick off of its performance festival on Friday, January 20, 2012.

Kalpa, by Hirokazu Kosaka: This major new site-specific commission by Hirokazu Kosaka will transform the Getty Center’s Arrival Plaza into a sculptural and performative installation. In Sanskrit, kalpa means eon—a long period of time. Once every hundred years, an angel comes down from heaven and swipes the surface of a stone with her silk sleeves until the rock disappears. Kosaka builds a symbolic parallel between kalpa and the inevitable passage of time that slowly transforms our lives, our histories, and our memories.

Following the performance, the Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS) will present the LAFMS Shoe, a series of duets that seamlessly morph from musician to musician exposing a constantly evolving palette of musical voices. The LAFMS Shoe is comprised of many of the core members of LAFMS including Ace Farren Ford, Dennis Duck, Fredrik Nilsen, Joe Potts, Joseph Hammer, Rick Potts, Tom Recchion, and Vetza.

Through January 15, 2011 – “The Experimental Impulse” exhibition explores the pivotal role of experimentation in Los Angeles art by examining networks of exchange and support structures that underlie Los Angeles art at REDCAT Gallery. Featuring historical documentation by the LAFMS including photos and audio. (Part of Pacific Standard Time) (http://www.redcat.org/exhibition/experimental-impulse)

January 20, 2012 – Free outdoor concert at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, featuring the LAFMS Shoe, comprised of many of the core members of the LAFMS, who play a series of duets that seamlessly morph from musician to musician exposing a constantly evolving palette of musical voices. Reservations required. (Part of Pacific Standard Time) (http://www.getty.edu/museum/programs/performances/kalpa.html)

January 14, 2012 – February 25, 2012 – “Beneath the Valley of the Lowest Form of Music, 1972-2012” exhibition at The Box LA, downtown Los Angeles. Exhibition features original artwork, home made instruments, ephemera, installations, films, videos, panels, and performances during the six week run celebrating the 40 years of The Los Angeles Free Music Society. (Part of Pacific Standard Time) (http://theboxla.com)

January 28, 2012 – free performances with line up TBD at The Box LA.

February 11, 2012 – free performances with line up TBD at The Box LA.

February 16, 2012 – panel discussion at The Box LA.

January 29, 2012 – “Welcome Inn Time Machine” free event produced by The Society for the Activation of Social Space Through Art and Sound (SASSAS) will transform a motel—the Welcome Inn—into a six-hour tour through key moments in LA’s experimental music history. “Pyramid Headphones”, originally produced by the LAFMS in 1976, will be staged as one of over a dozen concurrent micro concerts held in individual motel rooms. (http://www.sassas.com)